Part I.Multilingualism and linguistic plurality in local and global perspectives

7

Chapter 1.Different meanings of “diversity” 8

Liliana Sikorska

Chapter 2.A rainbow in the dark: Beyond global diversity 27

Shin-ichi Morimoto

Chapter 3.Multilingualism, identity, and diversity: The iLanguage perspective: embracing diversity in youth multilingualism 45

Carola Koblitz

Adams Bodomo

Part II.Cultural diversity in film

71

Chapter 4.La diversité des stations thermales dans le cinéma 72

Eri Ohashi

Chapter 5.“Is your culture better than mine?”: Identity construction of inter‑ethnic marriages in selected Nigerian movies 90

Ruth Karachi Benson Oji

Chapter 6.Nigeria’s cultural and linguistic diversity through Mount Zion movies 111

Liliane Hodieb

Chapter 7.National identity and cultural diversity in films: A comparison between Disney and Chinese version of Mulan 126

Zheng Yang

Zhifang Li

Chapter 8.Female-object: How is the female character referred to in Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) 135

Wanwarang Softic

157

Chapter 9.Bridging times in Wajdi Mouawad’s play Forests 158

Mai Hussein

Chapter 10.How Deleuze and Guattari’s nomadic thoughts contribute
to a new humanity 174

Wang Chutong

Chapter 11.Who are the others? Oppression and vulnerability in the personal narratives of women 197

Darja Zorc Maver

209

Chapter 12.Individual metaphor in German-language literature in the aspect
of multiculturalism and migration 210

Ekaterina Riabykh

Chapter 13.Between literature and politics: German-Turkish literature (2017–2020) in the mirror of “Çağlayan” magazine 234

Muharrem Kaplan

Chapter 14.“Babylonisches idiom”: Life-writing and linguistic diversity in Goethe’s Poetry and Truth 256

Tomás Espino Barrera

Index 271